Today we continue the "public places project" series of photographer Harry Wilcken. The most recent model for his project is Lisa Molenbroek, a 23 year Dutch student of Creative Therapy Drama in Amersfoort. She had some modelling experience, but it was her first photoshoot outside the studio.

The initial contact with Lisa was in July through a model website. Harry and her made the necessary arrangements and set the date, hoping that the weather would work with them. The photoshoot was made in a small recreational lake “Haarijnseplaas” in the suburbs of Utrecht.

The location and model where a success, with at the end a very nice set of photos according to Harry, even though the weather was tricky, a combination of rain and sun, with even a rain shower, that lasted around 10 minutes during which Lisa had to shelter herself in the fitting room – a “tent”.In one location they managed to use different sceneries: grass, water, a pier and 2 m high poles, where Lisa climbed and posed with high heels.

Lisa told us: “During the shoot I had to stand on wooden poles that were like 2 meters high while wearing heels, which was kind of scary to me because I’m a bit afraid of heights but it was a fun experience nonetheless.”For this photoshoot Harry used his Nikon D-810 with a 85mm 1.8 lens, one speed light on a stand without light modifiers and a small light reflector (silver).Unfortunately not everything went as smooth as it seems, at the end of the session, Harry's main camera failed (showing a big “ERR” on the screen) and forced him to switch to a back-up camera, a Nikon D-300 with a 24-85 mm lens. Luckily it was in the last 5 minutes of the shoot. It can always happen and to every photographer, so they must be prepared to have a second option as Harry learned the hard way back in the day of film photography.

"The session went effortlessly. Lisa is by no means a shy person" told Harry "she laughs easily and shows interest and enthusiasm all the time. Things to remark about Lisa: her wardrobe (with a special personal style), her long balanced figure and beautiful smile. In short, it was a pleasure working with her, it is a big plus for the project." Lisa told us “I liked working with Harry because he was open and clear in his communication. What I liked a lot of the session was the space for suggestions from my side, but also the tips or directions from Harry and of course the different spots gave the pictures great variety.”

With this Editor's Choice we like to provide you some background about our current cover photo, taken by photographer Colin Davidson.

The photo shows our featured model Harriotte Lane, who did the styling, hair and make-up herself in this case. Colin was assisted by Jessica Cornforth.

According to Colin the Idea for the shoot was an urban fashion theme, with various artworks used in what is now an abandoned Ministry of Defence base in the North East of England. The site has given way to an array of talented artists, where the walls seem to change every few weeks, with new works. Colin had worked with Harriotte Lane before in the session Newcastle City Centre and told us, that she is both, very talent, a joy to work with and that she has a very bright future ahead of her.

Since we assume, that you already have seen our cover photo, we got the opportunity to show you some more photos out of this session and some making off photos as well. Thanks to Harriotte and Colin for granting us permission to show all of these amazing photos.

We wish you a good start in the new week and like to show you an amazing photo series of our featured photographer ﻿Dusko Lukovic﻿ with the title "GREEN GREEN", obviously referring to the green dress of up and coming model Ivana Senicanin combined with the surrounding green of the park, the session took place.

​Dusko took the photos with his Nikon D600 and a 80-200mm f2.8 lens.

We also added the video taken by Ana Jovanovic.

Thanks to Dusko for the submission and to him and all the team for the great photos and video.

]]>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:04:50 GMThttp://www.streetfashion-magzzine.com/zz-editors-choice1/la-casa-del-cavaThis editorial project was created by photographer Xavi Carol with the costumes of the fashion designer José Rivero. The intention was to show the versatility of black short skirt dresses and for men's fashion bring a business and elegance approach in an environment linked to the rural world.

​The Shoot took place in Cavas Naverán, a famous wine and cava company in the Alt Penedès region. The idea was to unite that concept of climate and typical Mediterranean landscape typical for countries with wine production

Because this region is more than 60 km from Barcelona, and most of the team travels by public transport, and the days are prepared to carry out several projects, that amortize the effort and expenses of the production, they shot at about 2 pm, the hour with more zenith sun. Xavi used reflectors and large led panels to fill up shadows on the face.

The first series, that has been published, they made with model and actress Suheylen Herrera.

Suheylen has a Latin look with tanned skin, which reinforces that concept of sun and Mediterranean climate. Two more series were made, soon to be published, with the models Sònia Pérez and Sergio Fernández.

The series have been designed to locate 3 different "backgrounds", that link with the wine concept: Within a field of vineyards, providing a totally rural landscape, on a metal stair near industrial tanks, where the cava is processed and in a public area of the cava, where there is a relic and you get a very casual and everyday look.

Tímea Hudáková, a 21 year old Slovakian, is the new model photographer Harry Wilcken likes to present as part of the project called “Public Places”. This beautiful woman loves to travel and wants to become a model. The main reason, why she moved to Holland, is according to her, that it is a country with openminded and very friendly people.

While searching the web for magazines about models, photographers and fashion, Tímea came across the article about Harry's "public places project" here in Streetfashion MagZZine, that draw her attention. She got interested in working with Harry, got in touch and they planned a shoot in Utrecht. "Unbelievable as it sounds, but it was just that easy!" said Tímea.

​As for all the other models participating in this project, Harry asked Tímea to send him some pictures of the outfits, she wanted to wear for the shoot, so he could make a decision about the locations. Harry chose for less crowded places to make her feel comfortable due to her experience level.

Harry was equipped with his Nikon D-810 with a 85mm 1.8 lens, one speed light on a stand with soft box with grid. They met at the Central Station in Utrecht and from there they went to 4 locations in the center of the city.

Even though Timea can be shy in public places and when she attracts the attention to herself, they were able to shoot on the street. The result is a set of beautiful pictures, where her essence has been captured especially in the last two close-ups they made, before a huge rain storm forced them to stop the shoot.

According to Timea her main learning experience was to finally get comfortable making a photoshoot in the street, which is very different to the safeness of a studio. "It was a pleasure for me to work with Tímea! It is always gratifying when at the end both, model and photographer, are pleased with the result" said Harry.

Thanks to both of you to let us participate in your work.

]]>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:39:06 GMThttp://www.streetfashion-magzzine.com/zz-editors-choice1/dynamic-walkIt was beginning of this week, that we discovered this amazing photo with great dynamic in Streetfashion MagZZine's Facebook group. We immediately contacted photographer Heiko Decker. And here we are to share the photo of model Denise Scheller with all of you. Heiko also provided some background info about this session:

"Denise and I know each other already for a few months and in total had three common sessions. What I particularly value at Denise, is the easiness and humor, but also her absolute professionalism and focus during a session. Just joking and laughing, but as soon as the camera goes up, she is immediately in her pose or scene. In most cases, there are only a few shots required to get a great result with her. I don't have to tell you anything about her fantastic appearance cause this is obvious.

This specific picture was created during the photowalk in Würzburg (WüWalk). We arranged this together with other photographers and models and used the whole day all the corners of the city for different sets. Already at the beginning Denise and I had discussed, that we wanted to make something in the street and fashion style. When I discovered this alley, I quickly realized, what we could do here. As I already mentioned, Denise does not need many guidance. So the scene was briefly explained and then we started. However, some patience was necessary in order to have no passers-by in the picture.

Since I always try to work with as much aperture as possible, we had to make a few attempts to get the correct pose, the movement of the hair, position of the legs and arms as we wanted.

For the lighting I used a HSS capable plug-in flash with a 60 cm Softbox. The light came from the upper left and was triggered by remote control. My wife supported me. She ran along with us in the same distance to ensure a perfect illumination. She also has some experience in this, as we do almost all the shootings together and she as an assistant and good soul is on the set." said Heiko about the session.

Eleonora according to Alessandro is an amazing professional dancer, actress, a very nice person, humble and a talented model. In case of this session Alessandro chose to portray Eleonora in her capacity as an actress, seeking her expressiveness and emphasizing her elegant personality. To reach this, Alessandro designed a ''film-style'' mood with two looks; The first one ''business woman'' and the second more elegant and evening like.

The first part of the shooting was shot outside a train station transformed into a gigantic mall and restaurant. The session took place in the time from afternoon until evening.

Alessandro decided to mainly use the red bricks on the outside as a background, very clean and not too distracting, searching for leading-lines and using longer focal lengths (from 135mm to 200mm) and a fast aperture (f/2.8) to create a strong blurred ''cinema-style'' background. He shot with a Canon 6D and 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II. For the lighting Alessandro used a Canon Speedlite 430 EXII, through a 120cm Octabox, wireless triggered by the YN-622C triggers.

The second part of the shooting took place inside the mall & restaurant. There Alessandro wanted to get a a more sensual and elegant look. He used the same set-up here for camera and lens; the lighting was also provided by a single Speedlite (Canon 430 EXII), but this time in a 90x60cm softbox and with a 1/4 CTO Gel for balance the ambient light (more tungsten-like).

Thanks to both of you, Alessandro and Eleonora for giving us the opportunity to showcase these amazing set her in Streetfashion MagZZine.

For Harry Wilcken this session is a part of his project of street portrait photography, he is working on since summer 2016. The goal of these sessions is to put the models in emblematic / most visited / well-known places of the city and make some portraits. Sometimes Harry works with a Make up artist, but he likes the models to be who they are, wearing their own clothes doing their make up and hair, and posing natural.

Model Lindsey Duinmayer according to Harry is a young, beautiful, funny, extroverted and easy-going person, even she doesn’t like to smile very often. A really good model to work with, nice long legs & sexy look.

Harry is processing almost the same way for each and every model he works with:

Contact / invitation to be a part of the project

Send a copy of the contract

Ask for some photos of the outfits they want to wear for the session

Scouting (Harry goes to the city to see the actual situation of the streets to check for construction works or events in planning)

Selection of date, usually on a Saturday

With all the above information, Harry makes a plan and a route for the session.

They use 4, 5 and sometimes 6 locations and the model changes outfits constantly.

As mentioned above, Harry chooses 4 to 6 different locations (close to each other). He tries to use places people visit the most, places full of history and /or with architectural interest. Old and new, no distictions.

For the camera settings Harry mostly reads the ambient light of the background and add extra light to the model without TTL. Color chart check every time possible.Harry knows well how his camera catches skin tones and what chromatic aberration the lens he uses has, so he doesn’t spend so much time making readings for “a perfect” white balance.

For the post processing Harry tries to avoid editing the images. Lens correction and white balances are mandatory. A small correction to highlights and shadows when necessary. For the rest, he leave the images as they were taken.